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A complete .NET 11 setup for Tailwind CSS v4 in a Blazor WebAssembly app: standalone CLI (no Node), MSBuild target, @source directives for Razor and CSS isolation files, and a publish pipeline that survives Native AOT.

Microsoft's new Microsoft.AgentGovernance package wraps MCP tool calls with a policy kernel, a security scanner, and a response sanitizer. Here is what each piece does and how the wiring looks in C#.

A practical guide to spotting N+1 queries in EF Core 11: what the pattern looks like in real code, how to surface it via logging, diagnostic interceptors, OpenTelemetry, and a test that fails the build when a hot path regresses.

A practical guide to EF Core 11 compiled queries: when EF.CompileAsyncQuery actually wins, the static-field pattern, the Include and tracking gotchas, and how to benchmark before and after so you can prove it was worth the extra ceremony.

Strip Android and iOS from a .NET MAUI 11 project so it ships Windows and Mac Catalyst only: the csproj edits, the workload commands, and the multi-targeting that keeps your code clean.

Take an existing Semantic Kernel plugin with [KernelFunction] methods and turn it into a Model Context Protocol server other agents can call. Covers the drop-in WithTools(kernel) bridge, the native [McpServerTool] rewrite, parameter binding, dependency injection, and the gotchas that bite during the cutover.

Wire up anthropics/claude-code-action@v1 so every pull request gets an autonomous Claude Code review with no @claude trigger. Includes the v1 YAML, claude_args for claude-sonnet-4-6 vs claude-opus-4-7, inline-comment tooling, path filters, REVIEW.md, and the choice between the self-hosted action and the managed Code Review research preview.

A complete guide to wiring Serilog 4.x and Seq 2025.2 into a .NET 11 ASP.NET Core app: AddSerilog vs UseSerilog, two-stage bootstrap logging, JSON configuration, enrichers, request logging, OpenTelemetry trace correlation, API keys, and the production gotchas around buffering, retention, and signal level.

Wire OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs into a .NET 11 ASP.NET Core app with the OTLP exporter, then ship them to a free, self-hosted backend: the standalone Aspire Dashboard for local dev, Jaeger and SigNoz for self-hosted production, and the OpenTelemetry Collector when you need both.

A complete guide to running ASP.NET Core integration tests against a real SQL Server 2022 using Testcontainers 4.11 and EF Core 11: WebApplicationFactory wiring, IAsyncLifetime, swapping the DbContext registration, applying migrations, parallelism, Ryuk cleanup, and CI gotchas.